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Environment group BEST is celebrating its ten-year anniversary by urging people to support its campaign to protect Bermuda’s diminishing conservation zones.
The organisation was established in 2007, after plans to develop a hospital on the Botanical ...
DATE: Sep 27, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Tobacco Bay is to reopen to swimmers after levels of seawater bacteria dropped to normal.
The Ministry of Health said tests over the weekend had shown bacteria levels were within acceptable limits, but that Environmental Health scientists would conti...
DATE: Sep 25, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The gill parasite brooklynella has been identified as the cause of death of fish washed up on Bermuda’s beaches.
Large numbers of fish from a wide range of species, including the ecologically important parrotfish, have died of the illness — linked to...
DATE: Sep 22, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A programme designed to conserve Bermuda’s reefs has called on citizen scientists to help evaluate the condition of Bermuda’s coral reefs and fish stocks.
Reef Watch, created by the Bermuda Zoological Society with sponsorship from reinsurer Hiscox, ...
DATE: Sep 21, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
More than 100 Butterfield team members turned out at Warwick Long Bay to help Keep Bermuda Beautiful with a coastal cleanup.
Employees combed the beach, surrounding walking trails, parking lots and the playground to collect 12 bags of trash, and eigh...
DATE: Sep 20, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
For the first time, the endangered Bermuda Skink has been bred outside of the island — at the Chester Zoo.
The breeding programme in tandem with the British zoo, begun in 2013, has just yielded a total of seven hatchlings — a milestone in the species...
DATE: Sep 10, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bacteria levels at Bermuda’s beaches are well within environmental guidelines, according to the latest figures from health watchdogs.
A report by the Department of Health revealed some spikes in enterococci, a group of bacteria used as an indicator o...
DATE: Sep 02, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda will once again join a global effort next month to reduce ocean pollution.
The EY Bermuda Coastal Clean-up in support of environmental charity Keep Bermuda Beautiful will be held on September 16.
KBB executive director Anne Hyde said: “More...
DATE: Aug 31, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Bermuda is a little more beautiful than before thanks to a number of recent clean-up missions.
Marine debris and general litter were collected from the coastlines of Daniel’s Head in Somerset as well as Black Bay Beach and Glass Beach in Dockyard.
J...
DATE: Aug 21, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Chaplain Kevin Santucci has been extolling the virtues of gardening as he prepares to launch his second series of Grow, Eat, Save classes.
Not only does growing your own food bring you closer to nature and allows you to save money, he says, it helps ...
DATE: Jul 28, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan